The Gardener Loves Have you ever been involved in a relationship where you loved someone but they didn’t love you back? Rejection is difficult, isn’t it? You keep trying to get the person to love you, but nothing you can say or do changes the situation. I had a few of those experiences in my…
The Gardener Adopts I received my ancestry.com DNA results last week. The kit was a gift from my son, who knew I was foggy about my heritage. I also wanted to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was my father’s daughter. My dad died two months before I was born, and eight…
The Gardener Prunes I share a true confession with you today. I was arrested in high school. A couple of my friends had heard that kids were going for late night swims at our community pool and thought it would be fun for us to try as well. However, it required scaling the pool wall,…
The Gardener Provides Years ago, my then teenage son and I worked on a Habitat House. Our only job all day was to place sod in the front yard of this house, and we quickly found out it was laborious work. Sod is heavy. After a day of manual labor, we were worn out and…
Part One: The Gardener Created You “I am the true vine, and my Father is the Gardener” (John 15:1) Do you have a green thumb? Sadly, I do not, but I keep trying. Meanwhile, everything my grandmother (Nonnie) touched flourished. She had a peach tree in her backyard that bore beautiful peaches every year. Nonnie…